Daily Policy Digest
Health Issues
| Searching for Side Effects Two startup companies are attempting to revolutionize the reporting of side effects by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... |
| Contraceptive Mandate Could Face Tough Sledding in Supreme Court Catholic leaders reacted fiercely when the Obama administration announced that it would hold most religious institutions to a mandate that requires health plans to provide contraceptives for free, even those that have moral and religious objections... |
| Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements, 2006-2011 By 2010, 16 percent of employers with 10-499 workers and 23 percent of those with 500 or more workers offered either a health reimbursement arrangement or health savings account-eligible plan... |
| Medical Loss Ratios Companies that cannot operate under the new medical loss ratio requirements will likely stop doing business, thereby limiting competition and driving up insurance prices... |
| If Health Spending Is Increasing Slower, Why Are Premiums Rising Faster? The rate of growth in total private health insurance premiums was greater than the growth in total benefits for the first time in seven years in 2010... |
| Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects Overall neither Medicare spending nor saving was improved by disease management and care coordination demonstrations... |
| Should Physicians Use E-Mail to Communicate With Patients? In the health care profession, e-mail's use for communications between doctors and their patients is still controversial... |
| Quantifying Costs to States of Noncompliance with Health Reform's Medicaid Expansion In each state, at least 50 percent of the funding for Medicaid comes from the federal government... |
| Overregulation Reduces Choice in Health Insurance Promises that the Affordable Care Act's implementation will increase competition between health insurance plans are misleading... |
| How Competition Improves Quality: The Case of Medicare Advantage For eight of 11 measures studied, Medicare Advantage plans performed substantially better than Medicare fee for service plans... |
